The accent is on politicians talking rubbish

Nadine Dorries knows why northern women don’t trust some Tory ministers farther than they can spit. It’s the way wot they speak, apparently. “As a working-class northerner I can assure you that almost every woman north of Watford Gap takes huge exception to men and women with plummy accents and Savile Row suits dictating policy which affects their lives,” she writes. “We don’t trust people who talk posh.”

Don’t we? Well, speaking as one such specimen of a northern female, who lives in Dorries’s native Liverpool, I’ll admit that hearing a millionaire tell some frozen pensioner in Bootle, or a jobless family living on 3lb of Tesco Value mince for a week, that they “understand” their worries does make me come over a bit Incredible…